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OMAC/WBF working session

Two leading manufacturing industry organizations—World Batch Forum and Open Modular Architecture Controls Users Group—will hold their first working session May 19 as part of their effort to coordinate their development of manufacturing standards for machine and batch control.

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The afternoon session will be held just after the close of the four-day WBF North American conference.

The groups intend to coordinate development and implementation of the IEC/ISA S88 standard for batch control architecture with OMAC’s PackML state model, which is used for machine control in packaging applications. They also intend to develop guidelines for their implementation that extend across process, discrete, and batch manufacturing.

Dave Chappell, WBF’s lead representative to the working group, says other industry groups and standards organizations, including ISA and the OPC foundation, also will be present at the meeting and are expected to participate in the development activities.

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